[S]NOW WHITE: Donald Trump, following an extensive crackdown on brown-skinned immigrants, declares the United States the fairest of them all.

LA LA LA[nd]: In the first round of singing auditions, a musical’s casting director tries blocking out the sound.

CINDER[ella]: At midnight, the coach doesn’t turn into a pumpkin — it blows up. Whoops!

Style Invitational First-Ballot-Lock Future Hall of Famer Duncan Stevens suggested this week’s contest, a variation of one we did in 2015 with song titles.

This week: Delete one or more letters from the beginning or end (or both) of a movie title and describe the resulting movie, as in Duncan’s own examples above. As in all those examples, it helps if the description somehow relates to the original movie. A clever, funny description is key this week; it’s highly likely that some other Losers will chop a title the same way you did.

Second prize is quite the artifact: It dates from the earliest days of the Empress’s reign; finally, almost 800 columns later, she figures it’s time to give it away. It’s a custom-designed roll of toilet paper promoting the release of the novel “Walter the Farting Dog:Trouble at the Yard Sale,” “on sale March 29, 2004.” So why this week? It turns out that, after a fizzled effort in 2011, there’s another plan to bring the best-selling Walter series to cinematic glory — and so at least right this second there’s some tenuous link between this ancient (but wrapped) roll of TP and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. The E will also toss in a roll of Trump toilet paper, donated recently by Howard Walderman.

Other runners-up win our “You Gotta Play to Lose” Loser Mug or our “Whole Fools” Grossery Bag. Honorable mentions get one of our lusted-after Loser magnets, “We’ve Seen Better” or “IDiot Card.” First Offenders receive only a smelly tree-shaped air “freshener” (FirStink for their first ink). Deadline is Monday night, March 25; results published April 14 (online April 11). See general contest rules and guidelines at wapo.st/InvRules. The headline for this week’s results is by Danielle Nowlin (great week, Danielle!); Jesse Frankovich wrote the honorable-mentions subhead. Join the Style Invitational Devotees on Facebook at on.fb.me/invdev. “Like” Style Invitational Ink of the Day on Facebook at bit.ly/inkofday; follow @StyleInvite on Twitter.

The Style Conversational The Empress's weekly online column, published late Thursday afternoon, discusses each new contest and set of results. Especially if you plan to enter, check it out at wapo.st/styleconv.

In Week 1319, the Empress once again presented several dozen seven-letter “racks” used in the ScrabbleGrams word game, which appears daily in The Post, and asked you to find new terms of five, six or seven letters.

4th place

ACILRTU >ARTICUL: A story that shouldn’t have made the cut. “Let’s jussie how this articul plays out.” (Jon Gearhart, Des Moines)

15-year-old TP of a maybe-subject of a new motion picture!

3rd place:

ADEEHST >HEADEST: What the president is. “I’m the head of the country, the most headest of any country, believe me.” (Sean Bender-Prouty, Arlington, Va.)

2nd place

and the Mason jar of Ghanaian shito sauce: ADFHLNU >ANDUH: Filler used to stretch your essay when you run out of things to say. “Try to avoid such anduh as ‘In conclusion, it has become clear that all people of reason can surely agree that . . . ’ ” (Danielle Nowlin, Fairfax Station, Va.)

And the winner of the Lose Cannon:

DDEELMR >MEDDLR: App designed for yentas to make dating profiles for other people. (Danielle Nowlin)

E for EEFHORT: Honorable mentions

ACIPRVY >CA PRIVY: Many a side street in San Francisco. (Lynne Larkin, Glenn Dale, Md.)

AGMNSTU >MAGNUTS: Style Invitational Losers. “Many magnuts work 10 days straight trying to win something to stick on the fridge.” (Chris Doyle, who works 10 days straight and doesn’t even want any more magnets)

Still running — deadline Monday night, March 18: Our contest for ideas for inventions that still need a bug or two worked out. See wapo.st/invite1322.

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Pat MyersPat Myers is editor and judge of The Style Invitational, The Washington Post's page for clever, edgy humor and wordplay. In the role since December 2003, she has posted and judged more than 700 contests. She also writes the weekly Style Conversational column and runs the Style Invitational Devotees page on Facebook. Follow